Syndicate: Emergent Human Organization

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Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium of the National
Academy of Sciences on "Adaptive Agents, Intelligence and  Emergent
Human Organization: Capturing Complexity through Agent-Based Modeling."
This colloquium will begin on the evening of Thursday, October 4 and
will continue through Friday and Saturday, October 5-6, 2001 at the
Arnold & Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, CA.  The Colloquium is being
co-organized by Brian J.L. Berry, L. Douglas Kiel, and Euel Elliott.

An outline of the colloquium sessions and confirmed speakers is listed
below:

Implications of Agent-Based Modeling for Understanding
  Human Rationality and Learning - Moderator: Rosaria Conte
    -Blake LeBaron (Brandeis)
    -Susanne Lohmann (UCLA)
    -Bill McKelvey (UCLA)

  Cooperation and Competition as Factors in Emergent
  Human Organization- Moderator: Joshua Epstein
    -Peter Danielson (British Columbia)
    -Dwight Read (UCLA)
    -Michael Macy (Cornell)

  Economic Agents and Markets as Emergent Phenomena
   - Moderator: Leigh Tesfatsion
    -Cars Hommes (Amsterdam)
    -Jeffrey Kephart (IBM)
    -Yoshimichi Sato (Cornell & Tohuku)
    -Charles Plott (Cal Tech)

  Agent-Based Modeling as Organizational and Public
  Policy Simulators - Moderator: Robert Lempert
    -Kathleen Carley (Carnegie Mellon)
    -George Gumerman (University of Arizona)
    -Scott Moss (Manchester, UK)

  Platforms and Methodologies for Enhancing the Social Sciences
  through Agent-Based Simulation - Moderators: Nigel Gilbert
  and Steven Bankes
    -Robert Axtell (The Brookings Institution)
    -Eric Bonabeau (Icosystem Corp.)
    -Lars-Erik Cederman (Harvard)
    -Miles Parker (Biosgroup, Inc.)

I hope that you will be able to attend this two and a half-day meeting.
Attendance at the colloquium is limited to 250 registered participants.
Please share this invitation with graduate students, postdocs, and
others.

The registration fee of $175 for general participants covers the
meeting, breakfast, lunch, dinner and breaks, and transportation to and
from the Hyatt Regency Irvine.

For additional information (final program, registration form, and
hotel/travel information), please visit our colloquium web site.

     http://national-academies.org/nas/colloquia









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